Coming out of the blue,COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the globe,disrupting transnational movement of people to a large measure and indirectly affecting transnational movement of goods and capital.If the degree of economic globalization is measured by transnational movement of commodities and other factors of production,COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has obviously impacted globalization in a serious way.Can the pandemic produce long lasting effects on the process of globalization?Will globalization return to the original track or deviate and even reverse the original trend?To answer the questions above,it is necessary to understand the original trend of globalization and drivers behind it before the outbreak of COVID-19 and the long-term effects of COVID-19 on these original drivers,and it is also necessary to search for whether the outbreak has given rise to new drivers or factors disrupting globalization and the long-term trend of their evolution in the future.
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